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Perl is freeware. You get the best results if you get the Perl source
code and build it on your local machine. This may sound like a lot of
work, but the configuration scripts that come with the source code
make it easy to build and install. You can get the source code via
anonymous ftp as follows:
- UNIX:
- look at http://www.perl.com/CPAN/CPAN.html to find a
Perl Archive site near you and download the source code from there.
- VMS:
- download the Perl5 source code from
ftp://genetics.upenn.edu/perl5. It is especially tailored for VMS,
and overcomes many limitations the generic CPAN version has on that
platform. VMS-specific information on Perl, and what UNIX-like
tools are required to build it can be found at
http://w4.lns.cornell.edu/~
pvhp/perl/vms/VMS.html.
Each of the machines providing the source code keeps things in a
slightly different way, so the best strategy is to look for a README
file and follow the local instructions. At the time of this writing,
the most recent version of Perl was >5.0. We are currently running
v5.004_04 on surf.
For those of you who wish to know more about Perl, there are two
excellent books [1], web sites containing on-line
manuals (http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/cgi-bin/perl-man and
http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/htbin/perl-man), and at least one user
group (comp.lang.perl).
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2/14/1998